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A review by jensteerswell
How to Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioral Science to Transform Your Working Life by Caroline Webb
2.0
I read this because my book club chose it, but my kind of self-help is The Anatomy of Melancholy, not this. She claims it's all based on science, but what she provides is a very vague and general anecdote, followed by very vague and general advice on how that person applied these techniques. The subjects are always successful, but it's not clear why, because the evidence is so broad. She cites no statistics or large-scale studies in her text, only anecdata.
A lot of the advice is shallow, and gives no concrete steps on how to achieve it. For example, there's an entire section on how poorly you perform when you're tired. True, but her advice is to get more sleep. She just assumes that the only reason you aren't sleeping enough is that you've been sacrificing it to get more work done. Very helpful.
A lot of the advice is shallow, and gives no concrete steps on how to achieve it. For example, there's an entire section on how poorly you perform when you're tired. True, but her advice is to get more sleep. She just assumes that the only reason you aren't sleeping enough is that you've been sacrificing it to get more work done. Very helpful.